Despite the significant cost of prescription (Rx) drug abuse and calls from policy makers for effective interventions … prescription drug monitoring (PDMP) programs which is a key policy targeting the non-medical use of Rx drugs. Based on objective … utilization rates by actually requiring providers to query the PDMP prior to prescribing a controlled drug, are significantly …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence …

adult marijuana, alcohol, and hard drug use. We employed a restricted-access version of the National Survey on Drug Use and … on hard drug use in either age group. Taken together, MML implementation increases marijuana use mainly among those over …

A growing literature has examined how mandatory access prescription drug monitoring programs (MA PDMPs), laws that … on non-opioid drug prescribing, but these effects differ substantially across drug types …

We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how … a decrease in crime-related arrests as well as drug-related arrests. Overall, these results provide additional evidence …

The World Bank initiated a review of HIV prevention among injection drug users in Thailand, with the objective of … providing technical assistance to strengthen national capacity to develop state-of-the-art injecting drug use harm reduction … poorly Thailand has responded to the HIV epidemic among injection drug users (IDUs). From available data, it appears that the …